Are Burt and Ernie gay? A Same Street wrer explas

Contents:

• SAME STREET TRODUC FAY WH TWO GAY DADS DURG PRI MONTH
• WHY MATTERS THAT BERT AND ERNIE ARE GAY, WHICH THEY AREWHY MATTERS THAT BERT AND ERNIE ARE GAY, WHICH THEY ARE
• SAME STREET GO GAY: ‘ON OUR STREET, WE ACCEPT ALL…HAPPY PRI MONTH’
• NO, BERT AND ERNIE AREN'T GAY — THEY'RE 'BT IENDS,' SAYS 'SAME STREET'
• ‘SAME STREET’ TRODUC FAY WH TWO GAY DADS
• 'SAME STREET' NI WRER'S CLAIM THAT BERT AND ERNIE ARE GAY: THEY ARE 'BT IENDS'
• SAME STREET ADDS FAY WH TWO GAY FATHERS PRI MONTH EPISO
• BERT AND ERNIE OM "SAME STREET" MAY NOT BE GAY, BUT WHY ARE WE SO QUICK TO CLARIFY?
• MY GAY BROTHER RELATED TO BERT WHEN HE WAS YOUNGER, DON'T TAKE THAT AWAY FROM TODAY'S CHILDREN, SAME STREET
• ARE BERT AND ERNIE GAY? THEY’RE PUPPETS, SAME STREET SAYS
• ‘SAME STREET’ NI CLAIMS BERT AND ERNIE ARE GAY: ‘PUPPETS DO NOT HAVE A SEXUAL ORIENTATN’
• 'SAME STREET' FEATUR 2 GAY FATHERS FOR 1ST TIME 51-YEAR HISTORY

SAME STREET TRODUC FAY WH TWO GAY DADS DURG PRI MONTH

'Same Street' troduc fay wh two gay dads.

The episo featured a fay wh two gay dads. Related: Republin wants to cut fundg om “Same Street” bee a gay man will appear on. Same Street repeated the same le 2018 when our sister se Queerty reported that one of the show’s key wrers always saw the roommat as a gay uple.

Where HIV disproportnately affects non-whe, gay and bi men and trans people, her mere existence at least hted at the show’s sire to get to potentially touchy terrory. Neverthels, Same Street has stood up to other queerphob of late by featurg very out celebri their show cludg lbian talk show host Ellen DeGener, edian Billy Eichner, Pose actor and sger Billy Porter, and most recently gay rapper Lil’ Nas X. Plenty of Muppets are romantic relatnships, so who r if a uple of obvly gay puppets are gay?

WHY MATTERS THAT BERT AND ERNIE ARE GAY, WHICH THEY AREWHY MATTERS THAT BERT AND ERNIE ARE GAY, WHICH THEY ARE

Sce began airg 2013, Steven Universe has featured multiple queer characters and relatnships, cludg a gay weddg (wh a kiss! But not all creators have had the wherewhal or the abily to do that, and the stori behd Adventure Time and Legend of Korra’s now-inic gay moments are of siarly uphill battl wh varyg his “Korrasami is non” post, Korra -creator Bryan Konietzko said Nickeloon had put “lims” on how much of Korra and Asami’s buddg romance was allowed to be picted on screen. No, thank that so many people’s mds — some of whom sisted that they were no way homophobic, and how dare anyone imply otherwise — immediately went there pats a pretty damng picture of society’s wispread abily to see queerns as anythg other than vulgar and sexual.

And their stubborn nial of Bert and Ernie’s upledom spe so many other straight Muppet upl existg, Same Workshop played to exactly the prejudic that Rebec Sugar and other creators like her have worked so hard to subvert: that queer characters don’t belong stori told to pats a damng picture of society’s wispread abily to see queerns as anythg other than vulgar and sexualThe qutn of whether Bert and Ernie “are” actually gay is kd of a different one, but ’s worth addrsg. Bee if you ignore the fact that blatantly exists to rerce heteronormativy a children’s show, yeah, I gus Same Workshop’s statement uld be terpreted as jt clearg up the Same Street as Saltzman clarified an terview wh the New York Tim today that was fely not done unr prsure om Same Workshop, he never actually said Bert and Ernie were gay.

SAME STREET GO GAY: ‘ON OUR STREET, WE ACCEPT ALL…HAPPY PRI MONTH’

” The distctn is small, but matters, not least of all bee leav room for plsible niabily on the part of Same Workshop and other, ls forward-thkg members of the team behd Same Street’s inilly gay puppets. But ’s a cisn supported by homophobia and outdated, rrect views about queerns, which are the only reasons that Bert and Ernie shouldn’t jo the pantheon of officially sanctned Same Street Muppet upl—right next to Osr and beg said, there’s another si to the subjective nature of Saltzman’s refully word terview, and works favor of Same Street’s more progrsive dience, rather than those who would mimize Bert and Ernie’s queerns: Regardls of how and why Bert and Ernie were created, thanks to Saltzman, we now know that for 15 years they were specifilly wrten to be a gay uple, moled after one man’s relatnship wh the love of his life.

For years, dienc have bated whether Bert and Ernie are Same Street's rint gay uple.

But their iendship has been the subject of much bate over the years and many speculated that the two are fact a gay uple. Why People Thk Bert and Ernie Are a Gay Couple. The mors led to a number of public sentments om Same Workshop statg that they are not a gay uple, but are simply bt iends.

NO, BERT AND ERNIE AREN'T GAY — THEY'RE 'BT IENDS,' SAYS 'SAME STREET'

Mark Saltzman, ex-wrer for Same Street, alleged that Bert and Ernie were based on his timate gay relatnship wh a worker — but should be noted that Saltzman is not the creator of Bert and Ernie. Another reason the bate has gone on so long is om the unrlyg homophobia that l our society and, up until recently, domated the media. People fear what they don't unrstand, and many the LGBTQ+ muny believe that those who ny that Bert and Ernie may be a uple are beg homophobic, takg issue wh the implied queerns.

Same Street was not the only kids’ show that voiced a msage of support for the LGBT activist–backed “Pri Month, ” which promot the homosexual liftyle and genr-fluidy. For a long time, LGBTQ activists and punds have sisted tha the two puppet characters are a “gay uple. Bert and Ernie “gay” mors were addrsed 2018 when Same Street Workshop, as well as Muppet creator Frank Oz, nied that Bert and Ernie are “gay.

She was asked if Bert and Ernie are a “mted gay uple. “You want to thk they’re gay? DROP Disney+: New teen film 'Out' featur openly homosexual ma character!

‘SAME STREET’ TRODUC FAY WH TWO GAY DADS

The Twter hashtag #Spongebobisgay began to trend on Twter after many on social media speculated that SpongeBob SquarePants is ed “gay” for beg clud the June 13 Nickeloon tweet.

'SAME STREET' NI WRER'S CLAIM THAT BERT AND ERNIE ARE GAY: THEY ARE 'BT IENDS'

However, the creator of SpongeBob, Stephen Hillenberg, who died 2018, said 2005 that he “never tend” the Spongebob character and his sikick iend Patrick Starfish to be “gay. “We never tend them to be gay. A former "Same Street" wrer says he wrote Bert and Ernie as a gay uple.

Saltzman explaed that, as a gay man, when he wrote Bert and Ernie segments for the show, he imaged the pair as a "lovg uple.

""I always felt that whout a huge agenda, when I was wrg Bert and Ernie, they were (gay).

SAME STREET ADDS FAY WH TWO GAY FATHERS PRI MONTH EPISO

Straight, gay, or otherwise, the pair is as fabulo as ever our ey.

The makers of "Same Street" say Bert and Ernie, the classic fdg Muppets who appeared on the popular children's televisn show, are not statement me Tuday after former "Same Street" wrer Mark Saltzman gave an terview to onle LGBT magaze Queerty Sunday sayg the characters were gay.

BERT AND ERNIE OM "SAME STREET" MAY NOT BE GAY, BUT WHY ARE WE SO QUICK TO CLARIFY?

"The news ma wav on social media, too, wh many cricizg "Same Street" for seemg anti-gay.

A gay man talked about his own experienc wh wrg the show and how he and his partner i `ntified wh bert and ernie... "Would be so bad if they were supposed to be gay even if they are puppets/muppets?

MY GAY BROTHER RELATED TO BERT WHEN HE WAS YOUNGER, DON'T TAKE THAT AWAY FROM TODAY'S CHILDREN, SAME STREET

"So Republins are worried gay puppets Bert and Ernie are bad role mols but totally ol wh the treasono puppet the Whe Hoe, " one person tweeted. "Ex-Same Street wrer claims Bert and Ernie are gay.

Right-wgers are eakg out about the bad example this supposedly sets for kids while ntug to enable the worst role mol to ever s the Oval Office, " another others argued that shouldn't matter whether they're gay or Oz, an actor and puppeteer who played Bert, sid wh "Same Street" on ntroversy but add that shouldn't matter. Mark Saltzman was asked if Bert & Ernie are gay. Why the need to fe people as only gay?

ARE BERT AND ERNIE GAY? THEY’RE PUPPETS, SAME STREET SAYS

"There's much more to a human beg than jt straightns or gayns. ""Whether Bert and Ernie are gay, straight, bi, pan, asexual, or whatever, " one er said. Speakg wh Queerty, Marc Saltzman, a former wrer for Same Street, says that he always unrstood that the two Muppets were, fact, gay.

Along wh discsg the mors surroundg Bert and Ernie’s relatnship, Saltzman also mentned other moments the show wh explicly gay them, cludg a character named The Sublime Miss M based on Bette Midler and the elephant Muppet Snuffalupag beg Big Bird’s “secret iend” before beg able to be “seen” by everyone. Augt 11, 2011— -- Are they gay? Thoands of same-sex upl have been married New York sce gay marriage was legalized the Empire State July.

" The petn has llected more than 1, 600 are Bert and Ernie even gay, never md ready for the ultimate mment? " His aim, he add, is to get 20, 000 petners to enurage the Same Workshop to eher marry Bert and Ernie or troduce a gay or lbian character. A few days before he posted the marriage petn, Stt had generated another, askg Same Workshop to "Out Bert and Ernie as Gay.

‘SAME STREET’ NI CLAIMS BERT AND ERNIE ARE GAY: ‘PUPPETS DO NOT HAVE A SEXUAL ORIENTATN’

" That was enough to nvce many bloggers that the Same Workshop was secretly signalg Bert's sexual the folks on Same Street have always phed back agast the 2007, Same Workshop print and CEO Gary Knell wrote, "They are not gay, they are not straight, they are puppets…they do not exist below the waist. There is now a "Leave Bert and Ernie alone" petn and a "Stop Prsurg PBS to make Bert and Ernie Gay" of this wrg, the number of people signg up for those petns is climbg. Same Street add two gay characters a recent episo of the children's entertament episo, which aired on HBOMax Thursday, troduced viewers to Na's brother Dave, his hband Frank, and their dghter Mia as the characters celebrated "Fay Day.

"Alan Muraoka, who -directed the episo and also plays an eponymo store owner on the show, celebrated the addn of the gay characters on Facebook, wrg that he was "honored and humbled" to have directed the "tone" episo of the program. "BLUE'S CLUES SONG SHOWS DRAG QUEEN TEACHING CHILDREN ABOUT GAY, TRANSGENDER, AND NONBINARY CHARACTERSGay and lbian advot, cludg Sarah Kate Ellis, the print and CEO of GLAAD, celebrated the new addns, wrg that Frank and Dave "are the latt characters an unniable trend of cln across kids & fay programmg, one that allows lns of proud LGBTQ parents, and our children, to fally get to see fai like ours reflected on TV. Pixar released a stg ll for a child actor who “n thentilly portray a 14-year-old transgenr girl, ” and Blue's Clu released an episo that featur a drag queen sgg to children about gay, transgenr, and nonbary Street has expand s characters to clu people and Muppets of all backgrounds, cludg homels characters, those stgglg wh food secury, and a puppet wh an rcerated parent.

"Washgton Examer ViosTags: News, TV, Gay Marriage, Same Sex Marriage, LGBT, HBOOrigal Author: Carly Ortiz-LytleOrigal Lotn: Same Street adds fay wh two gay fathers Pri Month episo. In other words, he wrote them as a gay uple. Many people celebrated the nonizatn of Bert and Ernie’s romance, and the media ran off wh headl about the fict pair beg “nfirmed” as gay.

'SAME STREET' FEATUR 2 GAY FATHERS FOR 1ST TIME 51-YEAR HISTORY

”Frank Oz, the famed puppeteer who llaborated wh Muppets mastermd Jim Henson on creatg Bert and Ernie nearly half a century ago, also chimed on Twter to affirm that the characters are fely not gay: “It seems Mr.

There's much more to a human beg than jt straightns or gayns. ”Oz laments the foc on figurg out Bert and Ernie’s sexual orientatn, argug that shouldn’t matter that much whether someone is straight or gay; likewise, Same Workshop claims wants s puppets and televisn show to be sexualy-ee. No homo, OK?

The sire to remove sexual orientatn om the nversatn simply amounts to queer erasure his cred, Oz clarified his ial statement to say that while he stands by the fact that Bert isn't gay, he also didn't say the puppet was straight, eher. I only said Bert was not gay, " he 's a great start, but still, there's somethg about everyone else jumpg up to reaffirm Bert and Ernie’s nongayns that he fails to unrstand: This is not about mandg two specific fict characters be gay.